AOL Reviews

Pros

loved the casual work atmosphere. good colleagues and had a good work profile too .Chilled out environment . pretty decent salary package too .Loved the place overall.

Cons

personally would them to give more focus on developing cool products along with content management that will add to the variety

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the good work and pursue your goals more aggressively. Hire exceptional talent and give them the freedom to innovate so that they bring out the best in them.

Pros

Great People, good salary, great snacks

Cons

No money in the place at all

Advice to Senior Management

better filters on hiring as they dont know who is in the house

Pros

V good work culture, flexibility of working.

Cons

unskilled managers.
just talks are enough

Advice to Senior Management

innovation and implementation lacks.
wasted the best talents

Pros

Additional job responsibilities and professional growth are abundant

Cons

Additional job responsibilities don't come with new titles or additional money. Just happy not to get laid off.

Pros

Nice people, change to learn a lot about a huge ad network, performance based campaigns, a large variety of clients and a multitude of websites

Cons

There is constant change and little sense of security. They've done massive layoffs (they did deal with people honorably for the most part). Senior management has also had a great deal of turnover. There seems quite a bit of a "see if it sticks" mentality with new policies, acquisitions and
procedures which adds to the feeling of uncertainty

Pros

Good Working Culture
Nice people always open to discussions and help
Good place to groom yourself and learn a lot

Cons

Management needs to be improved.
Employees potential could be use in a more efficient way.
Needs to work more on product quality.
Giving space to innovation.

Advice to Senior Management

Company is more of management centric, engineering team should be involved in decision making process.
Can expand global wide.

Pros

awesome work culture.. very open door... lots of technical challenges

Cons

moving away from a technology company to a content company.... chances of survival are less.

Advice to Senior Management

Too many changes, too many layoffs... looks like there is no vision and strategy!

Pros

Great products and people to work with including opportunities to work on diverse projects and promote your very own ideas.

Cons

Communications from middle management could be better and sometimes there is unclear and/or unrealistic expectations on some projects. More time supporting staff would be helpful.

Advice to Senior Management

More communication and leadership from middle management.
Mentor staff and help set realistic goals and expectations that everyone can aim for

Pros

Rank and file employees are outstanding. A lot of really talented people.
You get to wear many hats.
Company hierarchy is very flat.
Working environment very causal.
Compensation and benefits are excellent.

Cons

Little to no work life balance in some groups.
Executives change company objectives every six months.
Executives do not "get" core values of some of their properties.

Advice to Senior Management

Please stick with a strategy for more then six months! Every time a new executive is brought in they dismantle all of the work previously implemented by the last exec.

Pros

Flexible working hours, lax on sick/vacation leave, laid back atmosphere, as long as you get your work done you can pretty much come and go as you please, fun happy hours and activities, gym.

Cons

The work never ends, barely ever raises/promotions, communication issues because of the two difference offices (NYC and Dulles), lay offs ALL the time.

Advice to Senior Management

It would be nice to receive credit on projects. The editors always get all the credit because they provide the content. However, so many people work on the project that don't ever feel the love.